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Philippians 2:1-11, Psalm 46:1-11

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John E. Harnish

... horn? The first comes from our Methodist tradition and what I understand to be the context and scope of our ministry. When John Wesley was asked to explain himself…his practice of "field preaching," moving out of the box (the pulpit, that is) to share the ... of the Risen Christ! Well, there you have it…the few feeble notes of faith you are likely hear in the years to come. With Colin Morris I confess, Mine has never been an adequate faith, but it is the only one I have to give away. So let the bugle sound ...

2. Jesus Came Preaching

Mark 1:14-15

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Donald B. Strobe

... conscience. Or it may mean that the listener was right and the preacher wrong! None of us has a degree in infallibility. As Colin Morris says about preachers who claim to know too much: “They would be modest enough to confess they haven’t the foggiest idea what is ... , in a strange turn of events, THE PREACHER BECAME THE PREACHED! And that is just as it should be. When John Wesley was asked what he preached, in order to gain such a tremendous response during the Wesleyan Revival of the 18th century, he ...

3. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

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Leonard Mann

... us - and always to paths unknown. For a time I was in theology classes taught by Professor Frank Paul Morris. (As I mention his name, I wish to pay tribute to a good and great-hearted man - and somewhat of an eccentric, too. How well I remember him ... death. It is the kind of security John Wesley must have had when a lady asked him, "Supposing that you knew you were to die at twelve o’clock tomorrow night - how would you spend the intervening time?" Wesley’s famous answer was: "How, madam? Why, just ...

4. An Everyday Theology

Luke 11:1-13

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Wallace H. Kirby

... a new mission field: those who drop out of the faith because it appears too simplistic, obscure and anti-intellectual. According to Cohn Morris, the pulpit is one of the few remaining places in our society where serious issues are discussed. It may be that neither the ... this might be one from a couple centuries back - that of John Wesley. He has been called a "folk theologian." In proclaiming the gospel through preaching and writing, Wesley sought the clarity and strength of the simple statement. He said he ...

5. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... really is, is an old language made new. How desperately we preachers need it. There is a dark and powerful passage in Morris West’s book, The Devil’s Advocate that challenges us here. Monsignor Meredith has grown weary in the church; his life ... . Her name is Tammy Hutchins. She came to Asbury four years ago, a recent convert to the Christian faith through Tom Tanner’s Wesley Foundation ministry at the University of Georgia. Tammy came here on faith, not quite sure where the Lord was leading her, or what ...

6. Who Do You Put On?

Romans 13:8-14

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... be provided uniforms, school supplies and emergency food stamps. Houston Community Center Prepared for "Refugees" Mike Shirl, director of Wesley Community Center in Houston, reports that he is working locally to plan for "refugees" coming in from New ... black United Methodist Universities, in New Orleans. The Dillard students will be able to continue their education at Lon Morris free of charge and without disruption while New Orleans recovers from Hurricane Katrina. Centenary College is doing the same thing ...

7. Look What Happened On The Cross!

Hebrews 10:16-25

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Mark Ellingsen

... poet Aesop said it well: “In union there is strength.” Likewise, the nineteenth-century American poet George Pope Morris well summarized the point of this lesson: “United we stand, divided we fall.” The great preacher of the ... love that can make you overcome divisions. When you are on fire with this kind of love, all the divisions get burned away. John Wesley’s brother Charles made a penetrating observation: “Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn,” he ...

8. The Daniel Diet

Daniel 1:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... I learned in Sunday School long years ago. Perhaps I should sing it to you. Ever since Bishop Morris was here last month and ended his sermon with a beautiful song, you have been asking me why ... or who is a reliable authority. The people of faith lift up this book as God's authoritative word. I'm so grateful for our Methodist founder John Wesley who declared, "I build on no authority, ancient or modern, but the Scripture. If Scripture supports my doctrine, it will stand; if not, the sooner it falls, the ...

9. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

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Robert G. Tuttle

... with the Jews, it overflowed to the Gentiles. Thus Jesus’ compassion reached out to the whole world. Falling in step, John Wesley cried out, "The world is my parish." Where is our compassion and our sense of urgency? Sadly for us, The ... of others. The new Christian was almost destroyed. The older Christian (?), called to be a shepherd, had become a wolf. Colin Morris encourages us: "You are the children of the Third Day - created by the Resurrection, empowered through Pentecost, the first fruits of that ...

10. The Explosive Power Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

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King Duncan

... its way into the history of England and America, strong men and women roared and shook under the power of preachers like Wesley and Whitefield and Peter Cartwright. Longhaired dandies would come to Cartwright's camp meetings. ˜They came to scoff,' he wrote, ˜but ... THINGS NEW, (Waco: Word Books, 1986). 4. H. Eddie Fox and George Morris, FAITHSHARING, (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1986). 5. W.A. Criswell, ABIDING HOPE, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1981) 6. GRIT, Jan. 31 Feb. 6, 1988, p. 7 ...

11. The Bloodline of Christ

John 20:19-23

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Leonard Sweet

... to life as there was for that egg to turn red. Immediately the egg turned red. Leonard Sweet O. Wesley Allen, Jr., Preaching Resurrection (St. Louis, Missouri: Chalice Press, 2001), 6: “This fuller context of the meaning of the ... is far more a help than a hindrance to serious intellectual work. Brian Leftow, “From Jerusalem to Athens,” in Thomas V. Morris, God and the Philosophers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 189. Are you “Saturday’s Children” or “Sunday’s Child?” “ ...

12. The Church of Your Dreams

Acts 2:1-21

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John E. Harnish

... also a day which calls for the church to live in courage, as a sign of hope in a world of fear and anxiety. When John Wesley wanted to build his first chapel in London, he petitioned the city for land and was given a thirty-nine year lease on a property on ... works thereof are burned up!'" All that…on a thirty-nine year lease! Now that's boldness! The great British preacher Colin Morris comments: In an act of cavalier disregard for the local authorities, he claimed that his edifice would remain until the end ...

13. Just Showing Up Doesn't Get the Job Done

Matthew 25:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... extraterrestrials have visited Earth already. Hello?! Complaints from 72 cigarette smokers in 27 states precipitated Philip Morris to recall eight billion cigarettes in 1995. The nature of the complaints? Smoking cigarettes caused sore ... ages has always counseled a wise relinquishment: Learn to do what you are able, then let go." (Managing Transitions [Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991], 99-100.) Once ushered into the bridegroom's presence and party, you will never want to leave. One taste of God, even ...

14. The Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:10-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... finished passing over the Jordan.” It’s a picture for me of the prevenient presence of God - God going before us in what Wesley described as prevenient grace on our behalf. Do you believe that? That God goes before you and prepares the way? That He will be ... prayed together. They laid their hands upon me, and each one of them prayed. I hope I’ll never forget Danny Morris’ prayer. It went something like this. “Lord, we know that Maxie is anointed tonight, but help him know that that anointing is ...

15. Naomi and Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... , however, find this explanation itself weak and condemn her for “turn[ing] her back on her mother-in-law” (Ruth Rab. 2.9). J. Wesley, for example, sees in her a type of spiritual lukewarmness: She loved Naomi, but she did not love her so well as to quit ... Jung advances his theories in Memories, Dreams, Reflections (New York: Random House, 1961), pp. 26–98. B. Morris dismisses Jung as a “mystagogue” in Anthropological Studies of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 174 ...

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